CIAO DATE: 10/07
Political Science Quarterly
Volume 122, No. 3 (Fall 2007)
Articles
The Rhetoric of Genocide in U.S. Foreign Policy: Rwanda and Darfur Compared
ERIC A. HEINZE compares the U.S. response to the crisis in Darfur to that of the Rwandan genocide ten years earlier. He concludes that prevailing domestic and international political realities during the debate over the Darfur crisis allowed U.S. administration officials to use the rhetoric of genocide as a substitute for taking more forceful action to stop the killings.
The State Secrets Privilege: Relying on Reynolds
LOUIS FISHER analyzes the state secrets privilege, which permits the executive branch to withhold certain documents requested in litigation. In examining United States v. Reynolds (1953), the first Supreme Court case to recognize and uphold the privilege, he concludes that the decision presented an incoherent policy leading to judicial abdication and that the executive branch misled the Court on the content of key documents.
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The UN Security Council's Response to Terrorism: Before and After September 11, 2001 (PDF, 25 pages, 237 KB)
HILDE HAALAND KRAMER and STEVE A. YETIV argue that the UN Security Council's response to global terrorism has been more forceful and comprehensive since September 11 and that it has broken some new ground. The authors posit that although the UN remains controversial in the United States, Washington benefited from its response to September 11, as imperfect as it was.
Sustaining Authoritarianism in the Middle East and North Africa
STEPHEN J. KING focuses on how incumbent elites in the Arab world create political support during periods of authoritarian transformation. His argument highlights how these elites use certain institutions to sustain authoritarian rule.
On the Crossing of Rubicons: Norm Dissemination and Policy Idiosyncrasy in the UK
KENDALL W. STILES and DEBORAH WELLS posit that patterns with respect to international law endorsement hold in the case of Britain's endorsement of the European Convention on Human Rights. They argue that this, however, conceals a much more complex and counter-intuitive set of causal dynamics below the surface.
Book Reviews
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Ron Suskind, The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11 (PDF, 3 pages, 168 KB)
Reviewed by Akira Iriye
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John W. Garver, China and Iran: Ancient Partners in a Post-Imperial World (PDF, 4 pages, 135 KB)
Reviewed by Andrew J. Nathan
Jimmy Carter, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid
Reviewed by Jerome Slater
Daniel Chirot and Clark McCauley, Why Not Kill Them All? The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder
Reviewed by Dipak Gupta
David Carment, Patrick James, and Zeynep Taydas, Who Intervenes? Ethnic Conflict and Interstate Crisis
Reviewed by Aysegul Aydin
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Bob Woodward, State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III (PDF, 5 pages, 152 KB)
Reviewed by Stanley A. Renshon
J. David Woodard, The America that Reagan Built
Reviewed by Andrew Rudalevige
Geoffrey Perret, Commander in Chief: How Truman, Johnson, and Bush Turned a Presidential Power into a Threat to America's Future
Reviewed by Melvin Small
Chris Tudda, The Truth Is Our Weapon: The Rhetorical Diplomacy of Dwight D. Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles
Reviewed by Jay M. Parker
Colleen J. Shogan, The Moral Rhetoric of American Presidents
Reviewed by Adam L. Warber
Cliff Zukin, Scott Keeter, Molly Andolina, Krista Jenkins, and Michael X. Delli Carpini, A New Engagement? Political Participation, Civic Life, and the Changing American Citizen
Reviewed by David E. Campbell
Irene Lurie, At the Front Lines of the Welfare System: A Perspective on the Decline in Welfare Caseloads
Reviewed by Sanford F. Schram
Diana C. Mutz, Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative versus Participatory Democracy
Reviewed by Benjamin I. Page
Sarah Igo, The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public
Reviewed by Ken Dautrich
John Samples, The Fallacy of Campaign Finance Reform
Reviewed by James E. Campbell
Mark A. Graber, Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil
Reviewed by Richard M. Valelly
E.D. Dover, Images, Issues, and Attacks: Television Advertising by Incumbents and Challengers in Presidential Elections
Reviewed by Stephen J. Farnsworth
Lawrence J. Grossback, David A.M. Peterson, and James A. Stimson, Mandate Politics
Reviewed by Raymond Tatalovich
Roger T. Larocca, The Presidential Agenda: Sources of Executive Influence in Congress
Reviewed by Jeffrey S. Peake
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Daron R. Shaw, The Race to 270: The Electoral College and the Campaign Strategies of 2000 and 2004 (PDF, 3 pages, 135 KB)
Reviewed by Michael John Burton
Randall Schweller, Unanswered Threats: Political Constraints on the Balance of Power
Reviewed by Richard Rosecrance
Susan B. Hansen, Globalization and the Politics of Pay: Policy Choices in the American States
Reviewed by Duane Swank
Christopher Rudolph, National Security and Immigration: Policy Development in the United States and Western Europe Since 1945
Reviewed by Steve J. Mazurana
Derek D. Smith, Deterring America: Rogue States and the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction
Reviewed by Andrew H. Kydd
Carol Lancaster, Foreign Aid: Diplomacy, Development, Domestic Politics
Reviewed by Phyllis R. Pomerantz
Minxin Pei, China's Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy
Reviewed by David Bachman
Steven Kent Vogel, Japan Remodeled: How Government and Industry Are Reforming Japanese Capitalism
Reviewed by Dennis Patterson
Matthew Cleary and Susan Carol Stokes, Democracy and the Culture of Skepticism: Political Trust in Argentina and Mexico
Reviewed by Chappell Lawson
Beatriz Magaloni, Voting for Autocracy: Hegemonic Party Survival and its Demise in Mexico
Reviewed by David A. Shirk
Leslie Holmes, Rotten States? Corruption, Post-Communism, and Neoliberalism
Reviewed by Graeme B. Robertson
Benjamin I. Page and Marshall M. Bouton, The Foreign Policy Disconnect: What Americans Want from Our Leaders but Don't Get
Reviewed by Lauren Cohen Bell
Christopher Layne, The Peace of Illusions: American Grand Strategy from 1940 to the Present
Reviewed by Chaim Kaufmann
Amy S. Patterson, The Politics of AIDS in Africa
Reviewed by Josh Busby